Alerts: Stsadm properties (Windows SharePoint Services)

Applies To: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Topic Last Modified: 2007-12-17

To help users keep track of changes made to a site, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes the alerts feature, which is an e-mail notification service. When documents, lists, or items in a list on a server running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are created, modified, or deleted, users can configure which alerts they want to receive, informing them that changes have been made.

Users can create alerts to track items within a site, such as:

• Lists

  Users are notified of changes to the list, such as when an item is added, deleted, or changed in a list.

• List items

  Users are notified of changes to a particular item in a list.

• Document libraries

  Users are notified of changes to the document library, such as when a document is added, deleted, or changed in a document library or when Web discussions are added, changed, deleted, closed, or activated for a document.

• Documents

  Users are notified of changes in a particular document such as when a document is changed, added, deleted, or closed.

Use any one of the alerts Stsadm properties to configure alerts for your server. For example, specify whether alerts are enabled, whether users are limited as to the number of alerts they can create, and, if so, the maximum number of alerts. You can also specify the times to send out immediate, daily, and weekly alerts.

The alerts properties are part of the setproperty and getproperty operations. The syntax for the setproperty operation is:

stsadm -o setproperty

-propertyname <property name>

-propertyvalue <property value>

**\[-url\] \<URL\>**

The syntax for the getproperty operation is:

stsadm -o getproperty

-propertyname <property name>

**\[-url\]** \<URL\>

The following table describes the alerts properties.